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Featured Blog Posts – August 2010 Archive (63)

Guess Who . . .

He sings of the prairie, the south and the past.

Like a stringed instrument, his voice quivers and cries out in pain.…

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Added by Faith Phillips on August 11, 2010 at 5:17pm — 6 Comments

Musician

Could his voice be any raspier as he croons a love song or plumbs the darkest depths of the human heart and mind? What's he doing in there, with those creaks and groans and that moaning soft and low? They say he comes from down 'round San Diego way, leastwise, some here seem to wanna claim him...

Added by Maggie Friend on August 11, 2010 at 3:38pm — 7 Comments

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Clouds and elephants
Are alike: huge, gray, slow, loud.
I hope it's raining.

Added by Jami Ward on August 9, 2010 at 11:16pm — 2 Comments

Here's Looking at You, Kid

The heavens had opened, and blankets of rain pounded fiercly upon the pavement. This was retribution for my incessant complaining. It had been a long, hot, dry summer; the kind of summer that robs nature of her color, and mankind of his sense of humor.

I was in a cab on my way to the Sixth Street Diner to meet Tiffany, a sorority sister from long ago. I was never that fond of Tiffany. She, like so many of the 'sisters', lived in a world of perpetual ME-dom, where everything and…

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Added by Diane Brown on August 9, 2010 at 9:12pm — 4 Comments

"Here's Looking at You, Kid!"

The beautiful, liquid-filled eyes stared and stared at Hal. He tried to ignore them.



What else was there to do? Nothing much was happening on the farm that

afternoon, except for the sun starting to throw long shadows across the fields

and toward the stone house where Sally had lived all her life.



Life on the farm was appealing. Hal was a city boy, born and bred, but Sally

was good enough to change his urban…

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Added by Maura C. Ciccarelli on August 9, 2010 at 8:30pm — 1 Comment

here's lookin' at you kid...

When I was 20 or so, a cop rapped on the door of the apartment that I shared with Nancy, a girl that I did not know well. He needed to talk to her. I didn't know where she was and said so. "What is it with you people?" he said. "You people? What exactly does that mean? Who are you to assume anything about me?!" my rebellious mouth retorted. My cat skittered out the door.



A generation has passed. I have… Continue

Added by Maggie Friend on August 9, 2010 at 8:16pm — 1 Comment

Here's lookin' at you, kid....

Passing me on the way to his car, David gave me a smooch on the lips. Lovingly, we called it foreplay. David on his way to his car and off to the work-a-day world. Entering the sterile enviornment of the hospital, I walked the all too familiar halls to my doctor's office. I waited while the technicians did their magic, spinning, cleaning, spinning and cleaning.... The crisp, white paper "robe" was donned and I swung my feet in anticipation of what I hoped would…

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Added by Suzanne Duncan Lees on August 9, 2010 at 7:33pm — 2 Comments

Creative Writing - "Sleep is"

SLEEP IS BLISS!!! Sleep is one of the most wonderful gifts that God gave us. This wonderful state of humaness allows us to dream, rejuvenate & provides the much needed rest we all deserve.

Added by Vickie on August 8, 2010 at 4:00pm — 2 Comments

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Screams of frustration
Frozen in my smiling mouth
By civility.

Added by Jami Ward on August 8, 2010 at 11:00am — 1 Comment

Childhood Memories

This was written a couple of months ago...

Today is Sunday, June 13th. I am at church keeping nursery and find it very pleasant. Cade is such a doll of a boy who is 2 years now. I kept his sister from an infant who is 5 now and I've kept him as an infant as well. Their parents are such a great couple. Looking out the nursery window I see Bumble Bee bushes; at least that is what I always called them as a child. They are still Bumble Bee Bushes to…

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Added by Vickie on August 7, 2010 at 12:30am — 1 Comment

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If you save your heart
Until you find the right one
You get no interest.

Added by Jami Ward on August 6, 2010 at 9:30pm — 2 Comments

The Morning Song of the Mockingbird

Our son Sam brought home a baby mockingbird. Or more accurately rescued it. He's been doing this kind of thing since he was little. Finding a baby squirrel, a baby pigeon, etc. that fell out of its nest and was about to be devoured. The only one who ever survived the orphanage and rejoined its clan was a baby crow, and that because crows are way more like us than we care to admit. They are scavengers who will eat darn near anything, very clever, gregarious, stick together in extended families… Continue

Added by David Vidal on August 6, 2010 at 2:26pm — 3 Comments

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Am I too late now
To do what I should have done
When I was early?

Added by Jami Ward on August 5, 2010 at 9:36pm — No Comments

Sleep is...



Sleep is the place where the minutiae of daily life, having been given their time, make way for grander possibilities. At night, the owl and the cricket remind me of the very breadth of life and of all that is beautiful about fog and quiet and darkness. Sleep is the time when I am free to imagine (or remember?) myself: magician, the madonna, the flapper, the sage. I awaken renewed and…

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Added by Maggie Friend on August 5, 2010 at 9:30pm — 4 Comments

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How many more times
Must we fight for equal rights
For ALL our people?

Added by Jami Ward on August 4, 2010 at 10:00pm — No Comments

Wiffledust Creative Writing Challenge: Sleep Is...

Sleep is...



all mine. It's when I stop. Breathe.

Say no to the bad and yes to the good.

What I say goes.



Sleep is when I feel the comfort of the duvet on my bare skin

as the comfort of the universe

scooping me into a maternal hug.



It's when the slowed rhythm of my slumber

synchronizes with the innate purr of my furry friends.



It's when I lay open with my love and he with me,

aligning our forces to face the coming day.



Sleep is… Continue

Added by Helen on August 4, 2010 at 11:01am — 6 Comments

DiJoseph's More-Than-a Piano Blog #4-INFLUENCES...

INFLUENCES



My earliest musical recollection is that of a music box in my grandmother's house.

Seems like I spent hours... listening....absorbed in that... mysterious..forlorn...intriguing...captivating

sound-of-a-distant-land melody.



Twenty five years back, I began writing a composition that was eventually called.... RECOLLECTION.

I started writing it while learning (or immediately thereafter) Chopin's Preludes in Eminor and… Continue

Added by stephen dijoseph on August 4, 2010 at 10:24am — 2 Comments

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We know who we are
From the moment of our birth.
Sometimes we forget.

Added by Jami Ward on August 3, 2010 at 11:50pm — No Comments

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